Even as Jennifer Laude’s family grieves, they are starting to fight for justice. Together with progressive groups, they trooped to the US warship where US Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton is said to remain, in US custody. The killing of the Filipino transgender allegedly by Pemberton renews calls to junk the Visiting Forces Agreement, and other US-PH military agreements that protect US soldiers who commit crimes in Philippine soil.

A documentary on how one of the world’s top supplier of microchips used by popular brands such as Apple, Samsung, Bosch, Huawei, etc. treats its workers in the Philippines. Twenty-four union officials of NXP Semiconductors Cabuyao Inc. were illegally terminated in an attempt to destroy the country’s largest and oldest surviving worker’s union.

Produced by PinoyMedia Center in cooperation with Mayday Multimedia
Direction, cinematography & editing by King Catoy & Ilang-Ilang Quijano
Production management by Jun Ressureccion

In the midst of poverty and crisis, a young girl dreams of a better country and governance for the Filipino people. This Public Service Announcement is a PinoyMedia Center (PMC) Production, produced by Koalisyon ng Progresibong Manggagawa at Mamamayan (KPMM).

Citizens who held a “People’s SONA (State of the Nation Address)” to call for President Aquino’s accountability for the illegal Disbursement Acceleration Program and ouster for various “crimes against the people” were pushed back by water cannons along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. But the people stood their ground.

Alarming human rights violations (HRVs) against indigenous peoples have prompted an ongoing national solidarity and fact-finding mission (FFM) in Mindanao, focusing on the recent mass exodus of around 1,700 Manobo families from Talaingod, Davao del Sur.

In Talaingod, the 60th and 68th Infantry Batallion of the Philippine Army, in counter-insurgency efforts, subjected civilians to aerial bombings and strafing, prompting the evacuation of Lumads last April 3. The soldiers encamped in houses and schools, threatening, harassing, and torturing civilians. While the Lumads have returned to their communities, intense militarization remains.

Pinoy Weekly is covering the seven-day mission. The mission covers not just Talaingod, but also the militarized municipalities of Arakan (North Cotabato), Maco (Compostela Valley), and Paquibato (Davao del Norte). Follow the tweets of PW’sKenneth Guda and other alternative media on the mission:

Talaingod is located near and within the Pantaron mountain range, considered as the “Cordillera of Mindanao.” Residents say that militarization in several areas along the mountain range is aimed at facilitating the entry of mining corporations. The Lumads have resisted logging and mining operations since the early 90s.

Watch the video of Kilab Multimedia on the plight of the Manobo evacuees: